自考英美文学选读 选择题

英美文学选择题

1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event.

A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B. England’s domestic rest

C. New discovery in geography and astrology.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

2. Of all the 18th century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style?

A. Thomas Gray

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Johathan Swift

D. Henry Fielding

3. Which of the following is Not true about Renaissance?

A. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance.

B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Regoirmation.

C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation.

D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main stream of the English Renaissance.

4. ______ was the first person who introduced printing into England.

A. William Caxto

B. Flovio

C.Homer

D. Plutarch

5. In Shelley’s “To a Skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet ______.

A. both celestial rapture and human limitation

B. both image creation and profound meaning

C. both music and words

D. both inspiration and skill of writing

6. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and hearless?...And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from______.

A.Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

7. The sentences “And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in____.

A. Wuthering Heights

B. Jane Eyre

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. Paradise Lost

8. ______ is considered by H.L. Mencken as “the true father of our national literature”.

A. Hemingway

B. Poe

C. Irving

D. Twain

9. All of the following four except ____ are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher

C. William Shakespeare

D. Ben Jonson

10. The first two lines of Alfred Tennyson’s well-known poem “Break, Break, Break” read “Break, break, break,/On thy cold grey stones, O sea!” The repeated word “break” suggests____

A. joy

B. fear

C. fondness

D. hatred

11. In the following descriptions of The Neoclassical Period, which is wrong?

A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period

B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical period

C. The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical period

D. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.

12. In the long poem “The Ring and the Book”, the “Book” is compared to _____

A. love

B. comprehensive knowledge

C. the hard truth

D. the method of study

13. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?

A. Childhood is central to Blake’s concern in the songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

B. Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity

C. The Book of Loss is his masterpiece

D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry

14. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ____.

A. The Stoic

B. The Giant

C. The Tycoon

D. The Genius

15. The belief that first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is divine describes _____.

A. romanticists

B. stream-consciousness novelists

C. realists

D. eranscengdentalists

16. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. White Jacket

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithedale Romance

17. Which of the following descriptions of Ernest Hemingway is appropriate?

A. In Our Time is the first book to present a Hemingway hero---Nick Adams.

B. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first big success

C. For whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingway’s masterpiece

D. A Farewell to Arms represents his climax in writing.

18. “There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the shisperings and the champagne and the stars…”, the two sentences are taken from______

A. The Greeat Gatesby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

B. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser